Is Purple safe to use?

Purple has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Purple?

Purple is a hosted remote MCP server - there is no local package to install. Configure your MCP client to connect to its endpoint instead of running it locally.

Purple provides 4 tools: Contents, Links, Credits, Feedback. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Purple?

Purple is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and http transport.

Is Purple actively maintained?

Purple is actively maintained - last commit was 1 day ago. It has 776 GitHub stars.

Purple

Name: Purple
Author: erickochen

by erickochen

Open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor in Rust. Fuzzy search hundreds of hosts, sync from 16 clouds, transfer files, manage Docker and Podman over SSH, sign short-lived Vault SSH certs and expose an MCP server for AI agents.

776 4 tools GitHub

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 1d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, http

4 tools · ~303 tok

Grade A · 0.2% of 200K ctx

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Purple is an MCP server that open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor in Rust. Fuzzy search hundreds of hosts, sync from 16 clouds, transfer files, manage Docker and Podman over SSH, sign short-lived Vault SSH certs and expose an MCP server for AI agents. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio and http, requires no API key, and scores 75/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients - only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "purple": {
      "url": "<see-readme-for-url>"
    }
  }
}

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What Purple does

An open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor for macOS and Linux. A fast Rust TUI that searches hundreds of hosts, syncs from 16 clouds including AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner, Proxmox and OCI, transfers files, manages Docker and Podman over SSH, signs short-lived HashiCorp Vault SSH certificates and exposes an MCP server for AI agents. Keyboard-driven. Single binary. MIT licensed.

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Score breakdown

75/100across 5 weighted dimensions

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~303 tokens total

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Purple safe to use?: Purple has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Purple?: Purple is a hosted remote MCP server - there is no local package to install. Configure your MCP client to connect to its endpoint instead of running it locally.
What can Purple do?: Purple provides 4 tools: Contents, Links, Credits, Feedback. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Purple?: Purple is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and http transport.
Is Purple actively maintained?: Purple is actively maintained - last commit was 1 day ago. It has 776 GitHub stars.

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DevOps Developer Tools

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients - only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "purple": {
      "url": "<see-readme-for-url>"
    }
  }
}

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What Purple does

Test This Server

This server supports HTTP transport. Be the first to test it - help the community know if it works.

README

Your ssh config, synced with your cloud.

purple is a free, open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor in Rust for macOS and Linux that keeps ~/.ssh/config in sync with 18 cloud providers, monitors live SSH tunnels and manages Docker and Podman containers fleet-wide.

Spin up a VM on AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner, Proxmox or 13 other cloud providers and it's in your host list before the console catches up. Kill one and purple marks it stale, so your list never lies. No more hand-editing ~/.ssh/config after every Terraform run, no more digging through cloud consoles for the right IP.

Everything else you do over SSH lives in the same terminal: fuzzy search across hundreds of hosts, visual file transfer, multi-host SSH key push, short-lived HashiCorp Vault SSH certificates and an MCP server for AI agents. Keyboard-driven. Single binary. MIT licensed.

Install

curl -fsSL getpurple.sh | sh

specific version, brew, cargo, nix, AUR or from source

Pin a specific version with PURPLE_VERSION:

curl -fsSL getpurple.sh | PURPLE_VERSION=1.2.3 sh

brew install erickochen/purple/purple

cargo install purple-ssh

nix profile install github:erickochen/purple

paru -S purple-bin

yay -S purple-bin

git clone https://github.com/erickochen/purple.git
cd purple && cargo build --release

Claude Desktop users can install the .mcpb bundle for one-click MCP integration (read-only by default). Setup details on the MCP Server wiki. No data leaves your machine. See PRIVACY.md.

Run purple. Press ? on any screen for help. That's it.

Why I built this
What you get
How purple compares
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Why I built this

My SSH config was fine. Proper aliases, ProxyJump chains, organized by provider. Not the problem.

The problem was everything around it. Need to check a container? ssh host docker ps. Copy a file? scp with the right flags. Run the same command on ten hosts? Write a loop or boot up Ansible for a one-liner. Spin up a VM on Hetzner? Open the console, grab the IP, edit config, save. Someone asks which box runs what? Good luck.

I wanted one place for all of that. So I built it.

What you get

Your ssh config tracks your infra

Drop in one API token per provider. New machines land in ~/.ssh/config the moment they boot, IPs follow instances as they move and decommissioned hosts gray out instead of lingering. 18 providers including AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Proxmox, Teleport and NetB

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories - click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

75/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−25

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

No package registry to scan.

Inventory

Tools (4)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~303 tokens total

Community

Reviews

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Have you used this server?

Share your experience - it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Purple safe to use?: Purple has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Purple?: Purple is a hosted remote MCP server - there is no local package to install. Configure your MCP client to connect to its endpoint instead of running it locally.
What can Purple do?: Purple provides 4 tools: Contents, Links, Credits, Feedback. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Purple?: Purple is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and http transport.
Is Purple actively maintained?: Purple is actively maintained - last commit was 1 day ago. It has 776 GitHub stars.